Showing posts with label eggplant. Show all posts
Showing posts with label eggplant. Show all posts

Monday, August 2, 2010

It's a jungle out there!

OMG! my garden has grown out of control! I am so embarassed by this mess! Definitely will rethink my design! The tomato plants are so huge they were falling over with the weight! I removed one of the 5 plants that had fallen completely over; cut back the other ones severely so that the fruit can get some light. I tried restaking them but they fell over too...only one of the 5 plants has given me red tomatoes. The beefmasters were huge and cracked on the bottoms...I have no hope for them! It is so depressing and defeating!!


I tore out one of my rows of peas that also collapsed the pods were huge but the peas were not filling them out.

My cucumbers are taking over the free space on the ground and creeping into the boxes! however I have plucked quite a few cukes! have been eating a lot of cucumber and zucchini salads!
Of my four zucchini plants, one has given me lots of zucchini the others flowers but no fruit until this week, so there is hope.

My beans were giving me lots of giant beans, but I had to rip out a couple of the plants because they were choking out the eggplants.

Speaking of eggplants..voila!


Is this not a thing of beauty?!

Roasted sliced eggplant on the bbq with melted cheese with stir fried veggies and garlic! yummy!

Thursday, August 20, 2009

Cool Pics!

Last weekend at the garden I got lots of great flower pics! The bees were lovin' it!

The plot next to mine has some lovely Cosmos!


These are happy sunflowers!


OH! and a real flower on my eggplant! I spotted at least 3 flowers in bloom, could actual fruit be far behind?



And the best for last, these are two of my entries into the First Annual Green Thumb Shutterbug Photo contest. I won 2 gift certificates for VanHorik's Greenhouse!
This was chosen in the Wild Side category (Common Burdock):

and this was chosen in the Bountiful Harvest category:
I didn't plant this cabbage, I saw this cabbage in Nik's garden, "beautiful plumage" wouldn't you say?!